I have had a problem with Virtual Machines running in Virtual PC 2007 on my laptop with Vista installed. The mouse pointer dissappears in text windows (notepad, query anayzler, word, etc.)

My first solution to this was to use the mouse properties in the control panel of the virutal machine, and turn on the “Display pointer trails” option, with the slider all the way over to “Short”. This worked, but was ugly. The icon was very flashy and would still disapper when it wasn’t moving.